. Midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work : showing the superiority of water-treatment in menstruation and its disorders, chlorosis, leucorrhea, fluor albus, prolapsus uteri, hysteria, spinal diseases, and other weaknesses of females : in pregnancy and its diseases, abortion, uterine hemorrhage, and the general management of childbirth, nursing, etc., etc. : illustrated with numerous cases of treatment . h the differentmorbid affections of the uterus. If these nerves of theuterus could not he demonstrated, its physiology andpathology would be completely inexplica
. Midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work : showing the superiority of water-treatment in menstruation and its disorders, chlorosis, leucorrhea, fluor albus, prolapsus uteri, hysteria, spinal diseases, and other weaknesses of females : in pregnancy and its diseases, abortion, uterine hemorrhage, and the general management of childbirth, nursing, etc., etc. : illustrated with numerous cases of treatment . h the differentmorbid affections of the uterus. If these nerves of theuterus could not he demonstrated, its physiology andpathology would be completely inexplicable. APPENDAGES OF THE UTERUS. The appendages of the uterus are inclosed by the lat-eral duplicatures of peritoneum, called the broad are the Fallopian tubes and ovaries. The Fallopian tubes or oviducts—the uterine trumpetsof the French writers—are situated in the upper border ofthe broad ligaments, and are connected with the superiorangles of the uterus. They are somewhat trumpet-shaped,being much smaller at the uterine than at the free extremeity, and narrower in the middle than at either end. Eachtube is about four or five inches in length, and more orless fle^cuous in its course. The canal of the Fallopian THE PELVIS AND ITS ORGANS. 239 tube is exceedingly minute; its inner extremity opens bymeans of the ostium uterinum into the upper angle of thecavity of the uterus, and the opposite end into the cavity. VISCERA OF THE FEMALE PELVIS. 1 The symphysis pubis; to the upper part of which the tendon of the reotus >miscle is attached. 2. The abdominal parietes. 3. The collection of fnt,forming the projection of the mons Veneris. 4. The urinRry bladder. 5. Theentrance of the left ureter. 6. The canal of the urethra, converted into a merefissure by the contraction of its walls. 7. The meatus urinarius. 8. The clitoris,with its prteputiam, divided through the middle. 9. The leftnympha. 10. Theleft labium mnjus. 11. The meatus of the vagina, narrowed by the cont
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